Championship 2024/25: Antepost Prediction, Tips and Odds

Leeds United have had a summer to lick their wounds but they won't make the same mistakes in the 2024/25 Championship season.

EFL Antepost Championship betting tips and predictions

Leeds to win outright - 7/2

A titanic four-way scrap for Championship promotion was one of the highlights of the 2023/24 season with Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton ultimately prevailing.

The side from that quartet who have been left behind are Leeds United, who failed to win automatic promotion despite clocking up 90 points, and then flopped at Wembley in the play-off final against Russell Martin's Saints.

It was agonising for Leeds but such is the schedule these days that Daniel Farke's men haven't had overly long to feel sorry for themselves and are ready to go again.

And despite the obvious threats from clubs of the calibre of Burnley, West Brom, Sheffield United and doubtless several more, the Whites can demonstrate they are the best in the division and land title glory at 7/2.

Leeds were 15 points superior to the next best side who failed to go up last term - the Baggies - and it's hard to see them taking any obvious backward steps.

They have cash to burn should either Crysencio Summerville or Wilfried Gnonto follow Archie Gray out of Elland Road and Farke and the board have identified replacements.

And the new arrivals will simply embellish a powerful and high-class squad who now know what is required to win promotion from this fiendishly competitive division.

Burnley look to be the biggest danger having been relegated with the nucleus of a strong team and with a manager in Scott Parker who has twice before won promotion from the Championship with first Fulham and then Bournemouth.

Luton have landed a coup in keeping Rob Edwards as head coach, though Sheffield United are hard to call with takeover talk dominating the agenda at Bramall Lane.

Middlesbrough to be promoted - 7/2

Four former Manchester United players begin the season as managers of Championship clubs and of that quartet it is Michael Carrick who is set to have the most successful campaign.

Carrick's Middlesbrough finished last season better than any side outside of the top four, losing just one of their last 12 matches to finish eighth, four points outside the play-offs.

The League Cup semi-finalists had ultimately paid the price for a terrible start which saw them collect just two points from their first seven games, and they were playing catch-up from then on.

Carrick was rewarded for Boro's improved campaign by signing a new contract in June and there are good grounds for believing they can sustain their upward trajectory and get into the play-offs at the very least.

There wasn't a striker in hotter form than Emmanuel Latte-Lath at the back end of last term, classy midfielder Finn Azaz has had a full summer to gel after his January arrival and US international midfielder Aidan Morris is an eye-catching pick up from MLS Cup winners Columbus Crew.

Boro look like a team ready to take the next step, that next step being promotion for which they are a 7/2 chance.

Blackburn to be relegated - 10/3

League One play-off winners Oxford United are predictably a short price to be relegated though many may think 5/4 is still tempting.

However, head coach Des Buckingham and his group were meticulous in their preparations for a play-off campaign where they defied outsider status against both Peterborough and Bolton, nullifying the pair of them.

To have that level of discipline over 46 matches rather than three will test the Us but they have to be upbeat, whereas the same cannot be said of Blackburn, who appeal more to be relegated at 10/3.

The only thing that kept Rovers in the Championship last season was the goals of Sammie Szmodics - he scored 27 of Blackburn's 60 - and naturally a lot of clubs are courting the Republic of Ireland striker.

Rovers won four league games after Christmas and will feel under pressure from the off.

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